LEADING TAPER -n turn limit. TEAK SEX MONTHS The Reflector. THE BEST PAPER IN GREENVILLE LARGEST CIRCULATION. MEDIUM. D. J. WHICH ARD, Editor and Proprietor. TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION. TERMS Per Year, in Advance. VOL VII. GREENVILLE, COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY MAY 1888 NO. The Eastern Reflector, GREENVILLE, N. C D. J. Editor and , , , i Heart of roe, why do you sigh f Published Every droop pale and shy, Like r that on violets lie WHY El VI. THE LEADING PAPER THE DISTRICT. Subscription Trice. UM per year. DEMOCRATIC, BUT will not t Democratic men and measures that are not consistent with the true principles of If you want a from a wide-a-wake section of the State send for the SAMPLE FREE I STATE GOVERNMENT. Why do yon sigh, my heart Sweeting, wherefore do you Till the flowers that May winds steep. When the day has sunk to sleep, . Seem from heads dew to peep Why do you weep, my sweet r O, love, whence comes thy glow. Like the sunset the snow, , Which on your fair face doth show i Why do you blush, my queen , Must I speak your answer dear Listen, then, yon will 1-ear Why yon weep and blush, Why. e'en now yon bid me hush ; Sing, O sing, ye winds that be ; Answer, music of the sea; Spin, old earth of melody; For one-love me Doth she not. my heart, for May. this lessens the value of what we have, and oar aggregate wealth is not increased a particle ; if we stop production at the point of home supply, then all the labor and capital of the country beyond limit k unemployed, and our wealth ceases to grow. Common sense out that we The farmer has two yards of cloth, and the public wealth that much The has made that much, not by fair and voluntary exchange, bat by an and unconstitutional law. Not all the sophistry of all the which wealth can Indiana's Vocation Gone, Painting Us Too Black. Wilmington Messenger. The Philadelphia organ which Philadelphia Times. In the last three Presidential contests Indiana was regarded as I had been investigating North Car- one of the pivotal farms and farm laborers, with importance was greatly magnified the view of getting a political sen- I by the fact the Gubernatorial ought, if it is charitable in- at i-m t on m fan L-n u . v. i no,. . ml. ll ll III- iD dined, to display as much zeal in Happenings in and Events Concern The State Over, From Our Many Exchanges. must have a market oar ear- anything else oat of a- an finger-board cannot I o the victory of bat plus, and high tariff tend to prevent this. They are i will shut down his operations and intended to prevent it, for as all discharge his foreign commerce is simply ex- are perishable and will not change nations will not bay from keep over indefinitely ; therefore as unless they can pay with their produce. With a tariff I wall around our country they can not trade with The wickedness of ibis policy is only equaled by its folly. There THE E. M. Scales, of Guilford It isn't the thing do. dear, man. of New Hanover. It's the thing you leave undone. Secretary of Which gives you a bit of a heartache, tiers, f Wake. At the setting of the sun. W. of Wake. The tender word forgotten. P. Roberts, of Gates. The letter you did not write. Superintendent of Public Instruction The flower you might have sent, dear, Sidney M. Finger of Catawba. Are your haunting ghosts to-night. Attorney T. David- , , . sen. of Buncombe. Out of a brother's Chief X. H. Smith, The bit of counsel, you were hurried too much to say. Associate S. A she. of i The loving touch of hand, dear, Anson ; Augustus S. Merrimon. of Wake. JUDGES SUPERIOR COURT. First E. Shepherd, of Beaufort. Second Philips, of Third G. of son. of he is obliged to sell his surplus at any price he can get, or lose it altogether. Therefore it is that th When the Democrats elected Governor Williams in 1876, it an- chored Indiana and the fairly de- in No the Republicans North Our People Are Doing and Saying. the miners m its own Mute. It will have its hands full in correcting the h buses which, ex- j right in its midst, and j The jail of the New York World and the j been empty nearly two Philadelphia Times are to be ,, . m . are a against human- Telegram . Mr. A. Incompetent Judiciary. Wilmington Star. here have been six or seven homicides in county the last twelve months. i Rockingham Rocket. some of the judges the II crime is in North Carolina. We have no doubt that there are ten in the State now where there county has before the Porter in 1880, it anchored State for in J. our county has a Assuming the organ is ply after reliable news, The commissioners of Greens- f this are . cultural products farmer secured and that it is about to start a cm- have donated to the re- is no country upon earth prepared the manufacturer, main-I Gr in 1884 the to rich by foreign trade our foreign trade and ex-; WM anchored Cleveland his election. When Democrats for the amelioration at farm j organized military as these United Stales, because changes, end doe. his foil share d there is none so abundantly sup- bearing the public expenditure , favor of h with all the conditions of besides ; and all this does b s o I u t e I y none. This peculiar and potential the moat necessary conditions. The gentle and winsome tone. That you had no time nor thought for, troubles enough of your own. Clark, Wake. Fifth A. Gilmer. of Sixth T. of Sampson. Seventh C. of Cumberland. Eighth District Cabarrus. These little acts of kindness, So easily out of mind. These chances to be angels Which even mortals find They come in and silence, Each chill, reproachful wrath, T lieu hope is faint and flagging. And a blight has drooped on faith. There u not labor enough in of political economy , political fraud in the sixty millions of people to dig up I the application to October contests, audit put Hen- all of our coal and iron or. in a , forced to sell ,,, the cheapest mar- on thousand years forests, though , and to boy in the dearest, rapidly decreasing by lavish waste Small as our foreign and tariff premium we offer j there would be universal distress for their destruction, are still roost and financial ruin without it. It We have a exchanges which i monopoly of staple which j pays for whatever we are obliged two-thirds of mankind, to boy abroad, keeps our precious I whilst in products our i metals at home, and maintains L , vast and e plains are credit of our country. the and granary as as the wonder could be made double its pres- there, and the world. In these volume in a time it we L, v of November. advantages, are the gifts j would only legislate a little in the and of nature our population, under interest of the whole country and the stimulus of free institutions not in of a class. We have Greensboro Greens- has a firm doing business mi in operation grain distiller in the United in this commonwealth, is it sure its information is of any value, or that the sources from which it derived its facts are thy of credit We do not, of course, mean to say that this is actually the case, but we will assert ; this in that the picture which it presents District. not a faithful one, is, against his will in 1876 and j drawn in colors entirely too dark, New Only again in 1884, and gave English and that it misrepresents the real I twenty-one St. Bernard the same nomination with Han-state of affairs. j pups arrived at Mr. J. A Patter cock in 1880. Hendricks fulfilled i We shall not contend that the yesterday, all from the same hie part of the both condition of labor in tins State is mother. At this rate the country limes by carrying a Democratic U that it should be. On the con soon he supplied with this Governor in October, but English there are not a few instances breed of dogs. in which the destitution caused by small remuneration is really pitiable. But this is not the gen- rule, and we believe that the farm workers in North Carolina, taken as a body, are as well pro- tow Star. is a very severe comment on the administration of justice by the Democratic and is more forcible it comes from the leading Democratic he Wilmington , Signal, The point is that crime is not de- creasing. This does not ; on the part of the of the State. We k were the people --------1 are i i I. States in Presidential years, grad- for as same class of labor For life is all too short, dear, And sorrow it all too great. To suffer our slow compassion tarries until too late, W. J. Montgomery, of It's not the thing you do, dear. It's the thing you leave undone. ha. developed more industrial twice the population of party will be composed of energy and more inventive genius; Britain, ten the material re- , Z h I re . J i j . . i October elections. Even Ohio has in a better condition than any other people upon earth, the tern- j , parties poured their money to win I the October elections in and, after sides Their labor saving form an epoch in the history of our race Ninth F. Graves, of Tenth C. Avery, of Eleventh II. Shipp, of Mecklenburg. Twelfth H- Merrimon. of Buncombe. Representatives in Congress. Sena B. Vance, of Matt. W. Ransom, of House of District Louis C. Latham, of Pitt Second M. Simmons, of C raven. Which gives you the bitter heartache At the of the sun. Needs of Nation. jet she has double the trade that we have, and multiplied the productions of I have been to death. human labor beyond the dreams of j It has been fitted a Chinese j Ousted their bank accounts the statistics show, shoe, and can only grow by j , the g I always came out just about where that the best i rained labor to be . in the same way our merchant It have , debauch- in t cannot marine has perished. We under- equal our skilled workmen, meas took to protect it ; we not only by amount and quality heavy duties on the had been discarded was the same in Indiana, man And it Chair- were always . . . . r man in into their work. And yet in the face, of ships are built, but, by official all this, and whilst the sound of we exclude foreign ships from all our boasting of it is still heard, we ; internal and trade, and declare the next breath that we j tried to exclude it from the open are unable to compete with our in- j sea also, by refusing registration shut out their prod acts tho American flag to any ship prohibitory tariffs, deny whole or in part made We Must Have Market e. But High Shut them Vance Fallacies and of Protection- Sun. article VI. ; the riches and the fruits of foreign j though by Amt- , i very earliest citizens But there we tailed. I Mn will which political economy District-John Nichols, of the science established Wake I was that the main source of Fifth of nations is commerce of I Peoples. It is not necessary here to repeat the fa- S. of Adam Smith, H. H. Cowles, i f Wilkes. I authors ; in fact lit science is D. Johnston. established than this, that u rich by to the of the spinner things in the making of which I they excel, and exchanging them for those products in the making of which other countries excel. It enforced money and villainy always equalized themselves all around. This is th first Presidential contest in the history of the gov- when there are no and Maine will vote for the repository unborn wealth and We could bind the land and make human energy to the narrow men rich by they net the home market With competition ; we could control our and i. the ore and the coal under his feet. and our coasts and , voted and the Pennsylvania Iron master de- enrich our domestic vessel own- Virginia, three hard fought dares he cannot make a ton of ere ; but the great, free seas bat iron without a tax of to he bound. They refused per cent., on the product of his, to obey any laws except such as rival, who is from three to has in posed upon the inter- ever better served. We suppose that ability of the present Court Bench will compare with any period before the war, and is incomparably superior to what it was under the Republican rule Sam Watts, old man Cloud and other legal ignoramuses rode the circuits. We have no that character of the present Bench is as good as it has ever been in the history of the Murphy, N. State, and infinitely beyond the C., has invited the members of the Republican standard of Jones Georgia press to make her a visit. Watts, and others They have accepted the invitation, defect is not n having a weak or and have signified their intention j incompetent Judiciary for such is th- the fact; but in defective about criminal laws, in a false public sen- , that with Asheville The list of members of the a of good . Ex Congressional their duty as the simplest article of food to stay I Committee of this District an he jury system their hunger or to provide for their G. H. Brown, of Beaufort county the slaves of the who sweat and toil aid often have not to do with the in- Tho are crease crime, chief criminals and this grows out of the new order of things. Before the war murders occurred chiefly among the whites. The have no cause to ashamed of their Judiciary as a whole. It will compare with the best in the wives and their little ones. Nev-1 chairman ; Harry Skinner, Pitt we shall not justify scant j W. Z. Morton Jr., of wages in tins State the grinding B. Watson of Hyde ; W. T Caho exactions which are practiced in of Pamlico ; W. L. The Messenger, always j Carteret ; S. B. of Wash a warm of the bread-win- ; A. Spruill of Tyrrell ; tiers and the toilers, would gladly B. F. Meekins Dare; W. D. have the condition of the j of ; B B. Win- men ameliorated everywhere, j borne of Hertford; L. L. Smith With the soil and climate which f Gates ; M. H of we possess, however, there is no tuck ; L. W. of Per- why a sober and indentions ; F. M. Godfrey of Pas-. u with man should no, be able lo provide ; Jg himself with food and clothing . . f ,,, , , unknown and look after the wants of bis as any word ii family as There sing cases of poverty and . . . m division Western North ; on Malaria are Intended Western North Carolina Railroad, In Buncombe. A. Move. M. King. Register of H. Wilson. B. Cherry. S. Congleton. P. Redding. Commissioners-Council Dawson, Chair- man, Guilford Mooring. J. A. K. Tucker, W. Jr., T. E. Keel. Public School Latham. of F. W. Brown. TOWN. J. Perkins. C. Forbes. Tyson. B. Cherry Alex. Ward, T. A. four thousand miles away beyond it is with the cotton the woolen weaver, the potter and all the rest. Offer to reduce duty, even slightly, on any one of his products, and he will cry loud enough to wake a sleeping city, and declare course of nations. As people could not build and operate ships as cheap as other nations, to high tariff's, and as they could not buy them from others with- out forfeiting their rights as American citizens, oar once mag- merchant marine lay everywhere, but we believe that Carolina presents no larger proportion of them than other States in our Union. , the English language, jot this word only meaning of another word by In times peak So as they and what our all it i with nervous diseases. are by troubles that arts a J, ; condition of the Liver will, h In Be Hind to the Aged. Wilson Minor, loneliness of age j laws of the science have their I the dealings of the hamlet. The laws are there in the petty trans- action- between man and man are I the same principle as those which all other or and 2nd Ward, which the same human i- the principle of the vision of labor by which a village that the least reduction will down quietly to die. It was not community thrives carried into instantly and permitted to die in peace, operation the larger business of would consent to die alone ; Its last hours ate disturbed by the world. In fact all the great would not be so the clamor of Quacks who might attend one be brought ii low. ties, will have no preliminary t Ions, us all have changed their Constitutions to hold their State elections in November. Thus, after Vermont and Maine, which will vote Republican of course, there will be no finger hoard to j point results in any of the doubtful States for President until the generation, and whose early com-i The total of all is whole nation speaks m and friends have been I . here is a decided increase Indiana is, no longer Valley Railroad . The loneliness of age How Plymouth turnpike, in the few think of and treat with i penitentiary. ; at Oaks farm due tenderness and consideration miles from ; those who have out lived then ; at farm mile from proper, ; Cape and km alley Railroad. Alt I performing Its functions lading it cannot Airy extension of Cape Fear and dispose the bile through the ordinary Valley Railroad, Mad- is compiled to it off through ;. , , ,. ,, i system, causing nervous troubled, Cape tear and I Malaria. Bilious lever, etc. You who are suffering well a curs. recommend Green August Flower, Its an marvelous. on and J. S. Smith ; 3rd Ward, Moore and J. J. Cherry. First and Third Sundays, morning and night. Rev. N. C. Hughes, D. D., Rector. Sunday, morn- and night. Meeting every Wednesday night. Rev. R. B. John, Pastor. every Sunday, morn- tag and night. Meeting every Wednesday night. W. Pastor. V. meets every 1st Thursday an day night after the 1st and 3rd Sunday at Masonic Lodge. W. M. King, W. M. Greenville R. A. Chapter. No. meets very 2nd and 4th Monday nights at Ma- sonic Hall, F. W. Brown, H. P. Covenant Lodge, No. I. O. O. F. nature is enlisted. Bearing this in mind, let us look further into the pretentious of pro- our tariff taxation is cause national wealth, and that it must be kept up if our wealth is to increase. It must ways be remembered money is not wealth, but only the medium by which wealth is exchanged. Real wealth consists in the poses is equally that the can try at large will perish He wants no foreign trade of course. The home market is good enough for Aim. There the com- petition of the foreigner is forbid- den by law, the of bis neighbors, whenever it gets is regulated by a ring of trust which stops production and keeps up p. ices as may there is none to mo- lest him or make him afraid. When by chance he miscalculates finds himself possessed of more goods than be cat.- sell at home, he ships them abroad and markets them in competition with of subjects of utility or pleas-1 the foreign paupers. If he suffers are. Now it is desirable that as j any Use he makes it oat of bis far as it is possible to do so with people, who are not allowed LODGES. No. Mt, A. ft to hay anywhere else, and he goes own wants. Hence most good writers on economy admit it is to the advantage of countries in their infancy to encourage do- by extra- j th benefit of protected on prospering and to prosper. In this way we have failed to secure the trade for nations. It is all done at instance for night. D. I- ordinary means. The first meets every Tuesday James, N. O. Insurance Lodge, No. K. of H., of such a country, struggling meet every first and third Friday night. I to establish itself among the D. D. Pitt Council, No. A. L. of II. meets very Thursday night. C. A. White. C. Temperance Reform Club meets in their is to secure a home supply of the things necessary to its ex- of which it might deprived room every Monday night, at by war in case it were dependent o clock. Mas meeting in the Court House . n of each month, at o'clock r. M. B. C. Glenn, Woman's Christian Temperance Union gift in the Reform Club Room Friday of each week. Mrs. V. H. ard, Band of Hope meets in Reform Club Room Friday night. Miss Eva Humber, POST OFFICE. Office a. at. to p. Order a. u. to P. u. No or- will be from to P. M. and from ii P. M. Bethel mall arrives daily Sun- and departs at P X. Tarboro mail arrives daily Sun- at and departs at p. . Washington mail arrives daily M. and departs at p. M. for Ridge Spring and mediate Mondays, Wednesdays and M. mail Fridays at on foreigners. Bat that period soon passes, and then comes question a surplus of products. So long as our country is only its own supplies of coarse its wealth is increasing day by day ; and if we made all we re- quired and could make no more ; we attain o national wealth other only that is to say, we could attain to all wealth possible it. such state of things. Hut human in- cannot stop without decay and rum. After it has supplied our own country, one of two things most take place ; either a foreign market most be found for Mir surplus products or we most make none. If we make more see. By it they control borne market ; if prices tend downward they buoy them up by ; if the supply getting too large must shut down their mills and tarn their operatives, in. to the streets. Having of the engine, they move forward, backward, or stand still, as suits their pockets. Meanwhile at their mercy, and the farmers worst of all. Their mar- prices are fixed abroad by the competition of the whole world ; their purchases are made in restricted home market. If want woolen cloth then they their wheat to Liverpool and sell it for one dollar per bushel ; there the cloth they need could be bought at cants a bushel of wheat paying tor four yards. But a tariff seventy-five per cent, prevents them from doing ; so bring the dollar back, and from a Massachusetts man boy with than we want and can't sell it two yards of the same cloth. In their anxiety to divert attention from their malpractice, loudly accused their adversaries of the author- ship of the calamity. They say but for them government would have given the two dollars from the treasury for every one they lost through tariff and navigation laws, they not Two doc- tors attend a sick man's bedside one bids other stand back, assumes entire control of case. will bleed and give he says. will kill him if you says other. know what I am says the one in control ; will treat oh the system. I want nothing to do with the theories of your European So be bleeds and purges, whilst pa- gradually sinks, and as his gasping changes into death-rattle the self-confident doctor turns with indignation to the other whose advice be had scorned, and upbraids bun wretched murderer you saw this sinking why didn't you give him brandy to sustain under my treatment If you bad done your duty he would not have died from of blood Well, I suppose is true. If the government had made good their losses supported from the treasury, no doubt they would be alive now and flourish- what of the people who pay these taxes for private Oh It doesn't matter about them It manufacturers are supported by taxation, direct and sneaking, why not support the shipowner openly and boldly by bounties It first is right, there is Indeed, no reason for re- fusing the latter. Z. B. Vance. Mr. Robert Q. has been chosen to deliver the memo- rial in the New York Assembly chamber in honor of the late R the pivotal State of the Union in a Presidential contest. Her vote may decide the battle, but there wilt be no sign foreshadowing that there is little that Governor Gray will be made the tor Vice dent with the fire in his rear. The reasons which practical an Indiana for Vice President 1876, and 1884 perished, and taken from then, I Unable to en jot convicts taking the years one gage in the activities of life they another. bus in 1880 there are no longer brought in contact were the average number and sympathy with those around i i to 1888 was from and no tie of common inter 1881 to 1884 H was from est and mutual binds 1884 lo it was Du- ring their were arrivals. So this year been re- them together. Their views tastes have grown apart. They share but little common with others. Tho future of this life has nothing to inspire their The Wilmington Shir We munition or excite their heard young woman mar- What calls forth the men they loved order to the stop of the October dance re- others has no inspiration for them. reform them. We do not to have heard of a successful experiment delicate line. the and companions of failure was complete and the mis-1 other years who have long ago pas- j deep and lasting. A beautiful, away. Lover and friends have j rich, elegant woman was greatly j tires the Indiana partners from ; They necessarily, to a great extent their prominence in the national j live a world of their own, with waltz. Both parties will save which those around them are not The has been thousands of dollars and familiar. The of ling of a pitiable and unfortunate much villainy by the abolition of I their hearts are with the scenes of j example of this kind, where the the October Indiana will be largely the gainer even if it does throw the Vice Presidency to another Western State. A Romantic Marriage. Concord Tine. A days ago the parents of Miss Tillman, of Anson county, desiring to send her to school at Greensboro Female her under the charge of Mr. James who was on his way to a to complete his education for the ministry. At Charlotte Mr. and his ward decided to get married, a license being procured the ceremony was prompt- performed. The pair went on way, at Greensboro the bride got off and entered the Col- The groom went on to the Seminary, and both are now pros- their studies at re- of learning. Would it not be a good idea for all tho ministers of this city, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, n R E E M VI L L E, C. In all the courts. Collections S Specially. I. JAMBS, DENTIST. t ii n. c. i lex i. blow, g r i AUG. M been taken from them, and their admired acquaintances laid in darkness. The forms they and loved are gone; the eyes, that looked In- to theirs with the are sightless, and the voice that cheered and stirred have long been silent. Their early world of hope and joy has become a desolation, and they sit in silence contemplating the ruin that has been wrought. They have but lit- lo interest them in this world. They are waiting till tho shadows Are a little longer to pass on to the reunion that awaits them, and glad greet- of those they love. Who would not do what he can to cheer the loneliness of age, to smooth their pathway, and comfort them in their declining years. and courted by scores. She made a selection. Tho result is tho old. old dis- appointment, misery, ruin. Hero is the sad sequel, after five year of trial and year ago I was riding uptown on a car. The car was crowded and I by the front door read-1 mg. and looked down hut did not at BERNARD, A ISA T-LA W, GREENVILLE, N. C. Practice in the Beats Federal J. E. J. H. TUCKER TICKER A A W. I heard my name pronounced N. C. A new postmaster was appoint- recognize the face, which faintly smiling at me. It was weirdly pale and wrinkled and careworn. I looked puzzled for a few moments, and then it dawned on me that it was tho wreck of one of the girls in Brooklyn. I accompanied her as tar as the door of her home. It was a won't invite you in she said, rooms are somewhat I said nothing, out I understood. It was pitiful to see her try to keep up as and for several days afterward . . the mail agent received no mail other cities, to designate some from the station and reported the certain Sunday morning and choose for their text which, reads as bread of the is their life; he him thereof a man of blood He that taketh away neighbor's living him, and he that laborer of bis hire is a blood shed- ed for a country in Tex- the pretense of being light-hearted matter to superintendent of railway mall lat- wrote the postmaster, who re- plied that he was waiting for the mail sack to get full before send- it to train. of poor men oft remind us Honest toll don't a chance ; More we work, we bare behind patches In our nippy and prosperous. A week ago I heard that her husband in the lunatic asylum and her baby was dead Now she has gone home to begin life over again. had married a man to reform Senator own home dis- has given that gentleman a very black eye. One of his has been sent as a delegate from the district to the Chicago Convention. A SKINNER, n. c. V. Attorney and at Law N J. Attorney at Law N. C. Will practice In the Court, of Pitt, Edgecombe and Beaufort cons tics, and the Supreme Court. Faithful attention given to all to him. DR. H. SNELL, K. O. Surgeon Dentist. Tenders his professional services Is the public. Teeth extracted without pain by tea M of Nitrous Oxide f FREE-m J. B. YELLOWLEY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Greenville, N. C.